Sunscales Avenue, Cockermouth, CA13 9DY

The Kitchen You've Been Looking For In Every House You've Viewed. The one big enough to cook in while the kids do homework at the table and still keep an eye on whoever's out in the garden. The house that lets you stop looking.

Most families find it on their third or fourth viewing. The moment they walk into a kitchen and realise, finally, that this one actually works. Big enough to have the oven on while one of you helps with spellings at the table. Big enough to keep an eye on whoever's out in the garden through the patio doors. Big enough that cooking dinner and family life can happen at the same time, in the same room, without anyone getting in anyone's way.

That kitchen is here. And it came about because the previous owners built their single-storey extension properly - on foundations designed to take a second storey above. If the family grows and you need more space in five or ten years, extending up is a real option. Other homes on this street have already done it. You would not be starting from scratch.

On the ground floor, you have the kitchen-diner at the back and and two additional reception rooms. The front reception room has a gas fireplace and bay window. The rear reception room has a working open fire of its own and French doors that open straight out to the garden. Solid oak bi-fold doors separate the two rooms, so you can keep them as two distinct spaces - one quieter, one more relaxed - or fold them back entirely and open the whole ground floor up into something bright and genuinely social. There is also a ground floor WC.

The kitchen connects to the garden through patio doors, so on a summer evening the whole back of the house opens up. The garden itself is the kind families picture when they are thinking about where they want to be in five years, with a patio seating area, sprawling lawn and mature borders.

Upstairs, the main bedroom has full-width sliding mirrored wardrobes and two windows looking out over the trees. The second double is a good size - comfortably fits a double bed, a desk and plenty of storage. The third bedroom works well as a child's room or a home office. The bathroom has been renovated to a high standard - large-format limestone-effect tiles throughout, a full-length bath and a separate rainfall shower, with a heated towel rail. 

The landing is wider than you would expect - it functions almost as a dressing area and makes the upstairs feel less cramped than the bedroom count might suggest.

Outside at the front, the drive takes two cars comfortably, and the integral garage gives you genuinely useful storage and flexibility that makes everyday life that little bit easier.

Cockermouth town centre is a twenty-minute walk, with independent shops, a market, good cafés and all the everyday things you actually need. Cockermouth School, rated Good by Ofsted, is about a thirty-minute walk, so when the time comes the school run is manageable on foot, or 10 minutes by bike. Loweswater and Whinlatter are both around fifteen minutes by car - close enough that a Sunday walk in the Lakes stops feeling like a big commitment and starts feeling like a normal weekend.

If you have been looking for a family home with a kitchen that genuinely works, a garden worth having, room to grow - and the structural headroom to build up if you ever need to - this is the one that answers all of it.

We are expecting strong interest. Get in touch to arrange a viewing.